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Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy

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This book provides fresh insights into concepts, methods and new research findings on the causes of excessive food price volatility. It also discusses the implications for food security and policy responses to mitigate excessive volatility. The approaches applied by the contributors range from...

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Understanding Food Insecurity : Key Features, Indicators, and Response Design

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This book provides a comprehensive overview of key aspects of food insecurity, including definitional and conceptual issues, information systems and data sources, indicators, and policies. The aim is to equip readers with a sound understanding of the subject that will assist in the recognition...

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How to Feed the World

Eise, Jessica (ed.); Foster, Kenneth Alan (ed.) - 2018

By 2050, we will have ten billion mouths to feed in a world profoundly altered by environmental change. How can we meet … this challenge? In How to Feed the World, a diverse group of experts from Purdue University break down this crucial … the World unites contributors from different perspectives and academic disciplines, ranging from agronomy and hydrology to …

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Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure

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This volume discusses the significance of human rights approaches to food and the way it relates to gender considerations, addressing links between hunger and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, agricultural productivity and the environment

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Poverty, hunger and democracy in Africa : potential and limitations of democracy in cementing multiethnic societies

Bigman, David - 2011

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The Design and Use of Political Economy Indicators : Challenges of Definition, Aggregation, and Application

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This edited volume seeks to provide a critical and technical look at international political economic indices (PEIs). It examines measurement issues, relates PEIs to economic theory, and suggests better measures than those currently used.

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Ernährung, Nahrungsmittelmärkte und Landwirtschaft : ökonomische Fragestellungen vor dem Hintergrund der Globalisierung

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The Economics of Addictive Behaviours Volume IV : The Private and Social Costs of Overeating and their Remedies

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This title offers an in-depth analysis of the psychological causes and consequences of, and proposed interventions for over-eating. The author examines the history of obesity and its distribution by social class and geography, the environmental effects of overconsumption and economic remedies...

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